TheocBase vs 3lines.org
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TheocBase
This mobile application acts as a companion to its desktop counterpart, facilitating the management of schedules and assignments for Jehovah's Witnesses congregations. It synchronizes data via Dropbox, allowing for edits on both desktop and mobile versions.
- Schedule and assignment management
- Dropbox synchronization
- Data editing on mobile
- Companion to desktop software
- LMM schedule maintenance
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This software is intended to use as a companion with the desktop version of the software (Theocbase), which can be downloaded from www.theocbase.net. TheocBase Mobile is useful for those maintaining LMM schedules in Jehovahs Witnesses congreagtions. To use Theocbase Mobile you need to install and configure TheocBase on your desktop computer. You can then connect the app to your Dropbox account and synchronize data between desktop and mobile application. You can establish the Dropbox link from the desktop software. Synchronizing works both ways so you can edit schedule and assignment details in the mobile version and pass information to desktop version via Dropbox account. Current version is with basic functions. More useful functions will be released in the future versions. Any suggestions are welcome and should be transmitted using theocbase forum at https://www.theocbase.net.
3lines.org
Convert Chinese ePub files and web pages into a three-line format, adding romanization and translation. The converted documents can be saved as PDFs or copied for further use.
- ePub to three-line conversion
- Add romanization (pinyin, Sidney Lau, Yale)
- Add native language translation (English, Spanish)
- Convert to PDF
- Paste Chinese text
- Import from URL
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Import ePub files that are in Simplified or Traditional Chinese and then have them converted to add a romanization line (pinyin, Sidney Lau, Yale), and a native language line (English, Spanish). The document can then be converted to PDF. It is also possible to copy Chinese text and paste it into the app. In addition, you can copy a URL from the Safari web browser, and paste in the URL to pull up the entire web page in the app and then convert it to 3 lines.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 3lines.org at every 4 days against TheocBase's every 2 months. 3lines.org also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 74%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for TheocBase against 4.6 for 3lines.org. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 66 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of TheocBase's written reviews are positive against 85% of 3lines.org's.
TheocBase ships an update every 2 months, 3lines.org every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TheocBase | 3lines.org |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (28 ratings) | 4.6 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Niko Hallikainen | Jon Hargett |
Customer experience
TheocBase
3lines.org
In-app purchases
TheocBase
No in-app purchases
3lines.org
No in-app purchases
